SQLite is not a toy database — RIP Google Reader — and All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

Issue #353 — March 26, 2021

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SQLite is not a toy database antonz.org \| points: 724 \| comments: 264

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RIP Google Reader ripgooglereader.com \| points: 555 \| comments: 307

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All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk brianschrader.com \| points: 496 \| comments: 328

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Do you really want Linux phones blog.brixit.nl \| points: 490 \| comments: 521

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Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you blog.rize.io \| points: 346 \| comments: 146

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Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained hillebrand.com \| points: 317 \| comments: 270

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Julia 1.6 Highlights julialang.org \| points: 307 \| comments: 137

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Rust 1.51 blog.rust-lang.org \| points: 302 \| comments: 64

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Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia bbc.com \| points: 301 \| comments: 212

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Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years phys.org \| points: 300 \| comments: 74

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Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought hsph.harvard.edu \| points: 295 \| comments: 259

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Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser themes.vscode.one \| points: 278 \| comments: 83

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OpenSSL Security Advisory openssl.org \| points: 267 \| comments: 118

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Funds for Open Source blog.opencollective.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 153

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Fossil Chat fossil-scm.org \| points: 232 \| comments: 115

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Emacs 27.2 lists.gnu.org \| points: 224 \| comments: 94

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Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video] youtube.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 63

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Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code bart.degoe.de \| points: 201 \| comments: 46

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Free Software: An idea whose time has passed? medium.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 399

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Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor lemire.me \| points: 188 \| comments: 84

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